Yang Shuxiang leads re:Sound in Pēteris Vasks second violin concerto “Distant Light”. Known for the sheer beauty of sound in his music Distant Light is in Vasks’ own words ‘nostalgia with a touch of tragedy’ a reflection on evening light as a metaphor for the twilight years of human beings.
On the programme is also Mozart’s great “Linz” Symphony and Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara’s first opus Pelimannit (“The Fiddlers”) free fantasies on tunes that he found in an 18th-century notebook of a folk fiddler.
PROGRAMME
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Pelimannit (“The Fiddlers”) op. 1
Pēteris Vasks
Concerto for violin and strings Tālā gaisma (“Distant Light”)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 36 in C major K. 425 (“Linz” Symphony)
Featuring
re:Sound
Yang Shuxiang (solo violin/leader)
Programme duration ~ 105 min (85 min with 20 min intermission)
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Victoria Concert Hall, 1 Empress Pl, #01-02, Singapore 179558, Singapore, Singapore
